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Annual Bloggers Bash Awards: Here are the Nominees!

After two months of nominations, here are the final list of nominees for the Annual Bloggers Bash Awards 2019!

It’s certainly been an interesting process. Based on the enormous amount of feedback we received last year, we decided to change the categories to ensure that they were less ambiguous and provided an opportunity for the blogging community to receive some recognition for their efforts within the online world in suitable categories. As with anything, some of you were happy about this, while others weren’t. We have tried our best to accommodate as many categories as we possibly could, and in the end had to merge some of them due to just two or three nominations in individual categories at the end of the nomination period.

With a large percentage of our audience being book bloggers and authors, it was inevitable that the book category would be the most popular, but we have been pleased to see so many blogs being nominated for other categories too. We had HUNDREDS of nominations over the two month period, which was amazing.

Unfortunately, we have had to disqualify a significantly large number of nominations. This is either because:

A blogger nominated themselves, which is against the rules

Incorrect information was given. We required an email address of the person being nominated in order to process the nomination as we sent out a Congratulations Pack of information and a badge for them to display. Instead, many nominations gave a twitter link, Facebook page link, link to an About Page or nothing at all. While we appreciate that many blogs have a contact page, with the sheer volume of nominations we didn’t have the time nor the capacity to be able to go and search for the emails ourselves, so these were disqualified automatically, as was explained in our original nominations post at the beginning of February.

Please note:we will not be entering into any discussions or arguments about the nominations process, the fact that it is an online vote without judges, or the size of nominations in one category compared to another. It was designed to be a fun, inclusive extra for those who cannot attend the event in London and this is how it will remain. Unfortunately, we are not going to ever be able to please everybody, and anyone who seeks to cause a fuss will automatically be removed from the nominations.

We needed the email address of the blogger being nominated so we could inform them they had been nominated and so we could send them a ‘Congraulations’ pack. The email address is not used for anything else. We don’t recommend anyone giving out their own email address on their blog or, if they do, to disguise it so it can’t be picked up by spambots. All WordPress bloggers can get email addresses from the dashboard of their blog of those who have left comments. Some bloggers also set up and use a separate email address for blogging so that their personal email address is not used.